Why you tell people that your mum died? Esspecially on a game where people are not mature enough to handle this situation and make jokes about it? Worst thing you could have done.

But back to topic.
Zone would success with following things:

1. new Tiles is a must. This shangri la tile are not fitting Zones theme in any way. I would love to see the original Zone tiles on here, no clue why they are not used, but thats the upper managements decision (unixmad, Stefan)
2. Custom sprites, GK/Zone sprites. The classic sprites are not matching at all, and look horrible compared with the Zone weapons. It is a shame in my opinion to use classic sprites with that weapons.

With only this two things, Im sure Zone could jump up in the 500s playercount easily. At the moment, this Server is a 1:1 copy of iEra, just another tileset and some other stuff. Contentwise Zone is fine, needs some adjusting but thats not bad at all.

I didn't check the staff list lately, but Im sure there could be some improvements aswell.

Anyway, good luck